Deconstructing the Hero

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This book sets out to explore the structure and meanings within the most popular of all literary genres - the adventure story. Deconstructing the Hero offers analytical readings of some of the most widely read adventure stories such as Treasure Island , the James Bond stories and Star Wars. The book describes how adventure stories are influential in shaping children's perception and establishing values. When many of these stories define non-white, non-European people as inferior, and women as marginal or incapable, we should be worried about what they are teaching our children to think. Margery Hourihan shows how teaching children to read books critically can help to prevent the establishment of negative attitudes, discourage aggression and promote values of emotion and creativity.In these games the player enters the action and so actually a#39;becomesa#39; the hero;
there is not even the minor distancing provided ... voice of a written or spoken
story, or the possibility of detachment which exists for the audience of a play or
film.

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Deconstructing the Hero

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Margery Hourihan

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Routledge - 2005-08-19

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